Philipp Öttl sees electronics as main energy of Ducati

2023 MOTUL FIM Superbike World Championship

Spherical One – Phillip Island

Philipp Öttl

Philipp Öttl: “For me the 11^th place yesterday (Saturday) was good, however possibly a little bit of a disappointment. In case you evaluate it to the results of the Superpole. However at present within the dry – since day 1 on the testing, we knew we had good tempo right here in Australia – it was all about confirming that within the race. The tempo within the Superpole race was actually actually quick. The 2 races on Sunday had been simply actually good, I’m very blissful, though we didn’t handle to beat the highest ten in Race 2.

“I feel I might be blissful, to be sincere in all three races I used to be at 100 per cent, so I feel I did the utmost quantity this weekend for us. In fact, possibly sooner or later we will do even higher. However you even have to contemplate that the championship has a extremely excessive degree, so I feel the highest 5 or the highest ten will change ceaselessly.”

Q: And the efficiency of your bike and Ducati usually?

Philipp Öttl: “For the time being I’ve fairly a superb feeling, particularly for the entrance of the bike, and I feel an enormous benefit of the bike is the electronics, how the electronics are working.

“It’s simply my private opinion, I’ve by no means rode a Yamaha, or a BMW, or different model of motorbike with the world championship electronics, so I can solely communicate for what I really feel.

“I feel that the large benefit of the Ducati is on racetracks the place the tyre consumption is excessive and also you don’t have a variety of grip, so I feel that particularly Australia and Barcelona the 2 race tracks the place you’ve gotten a slight benefit with this type of bike.

“In fact there will probably be races the place the Ducati will at all times be aggressive, as a result of it’s a superb bike, particularly this weekend the bike was good. However I additionally had a superb movement for the observe which was serving to, a superb rhythm, and each time I went out I used to be quick.”

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